Comments on: Two mouse embryos successfully grown on ISS https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-mouse-embryos-successfully-grown-on-iss/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 23:21:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-mouse-embryos-successfully-grown-on-iss/#comment-1432478 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 23:21:23 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=99801#comment-1432478 An experiment that should have been done years ago.

By now we should have a few generations of mice on the station living just fine.

]]> By: Ian C. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-mouse-embryos-successfully-grown-on-iss/#comment-1432338 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:32:46 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=99801#comment-1432338 Very interesting and useful.
As one comment on the New Atlas website suggests, it could also mean to grow animals as a food source. (In case the lab-grown meat doesn’t work as intended.) It also means we’re perhaps bringing our co-evolving ecosystem with us, willingly and accidentally.

]]> By: David Eastman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-mouse-embryos-successfully-grown-on-iss/#comment-1432318 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:03:53 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=99801#comment-1432318 It boggles my mind that this experiment is being done nearly 70 years after we first started sending animals to orbit.

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